Twenty-five years ago, Vermont recognized the first same sex couple in the country.Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson were ...

The court handed President Trump a major victory by curbing the power of federal judges to impose nationwide rulings impeding ...

Thirty days from today, every child born in Washington will remain a U.S. citizen, but some children born next door in Idaho ...

While Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage, advocates in Ohio ...

Regardless of legal status, people in the State of California are afforded rights that can help them when being detained by Immigration enforcement.

While unions have always been tied closely with the struggles of civil rights, that has become even more pronounced in the years since George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.

More The road to civil unions: 'The Baker Case' In the late '90s, three lawyers and three same-sex couples decided it was time to test Vermont’s marriage laws. In 1998, three Vermont same-sex ...

Once civil unions passed the house, it was much smoother sailing for gay advocates. The senate, which had a higher percentage of Democrats than the house, passed civil unions 19-11.